You are so young to have produced a record of such confidence and maturity. How did the recording process go in comparison with Scream?
Bill Kaulitz: Tom and me, we co-produced this album, for the very first time, which was really, really cool. So, basically we produced it with our co-producers from the first record. We’re like one huge family in the studio. Everyone knows each other very well, so it’s really [a] family thing. We went into the studio for like, one year, and we tried so many different things, and this record is more electronic, so it’s a new sound.
Tom Kaulitz: Essentially, with the production, we wanted to create a new sound [for us].
Bill: Yeah. It was really time for us to be creative and write new stuff, because we were on the road with the last record for such a long time. I think in December we played our last concert, with song that I had written when I was 13! So it was really time for new stuff.
Humanoid as a title is very evocative. What inspired it? Is this self-referential at all?
Bill: No. Humanoid was a feeling we had in our childhood, growing up in a small village. So we felt a bit humanoid. I think it was the way other people saw us.
As musicians, you felt…
Tom: As musicians, yes, and persons in general, I think.
Bill: Yeah, from the look and the whole thing. [It] also describes our life right now very well, because it’s not normal.
Tom: We went through all the songs, and we felt that the record should have the name Humanoid.
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